SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA AND THE EAST INDIES 425

the island of Madura and
a harbour basin has re-
cently been constructed.
These three ports are re-
spectively the main out-
lets of Western, Central
and Eastern Java. There
are several other small
ports, Tjilatjap on the
south coast; Cheribon,
Pekalongan and Pasuruan
on the north coast.
Amongst important in-
land centres, there is the
fine city of Buitenzorg
with its famous botanical
gardens ; Bandung, in the
heart of the fertile high
plains of West Java;
Garut, a delightful hill
station ; and Jokyakarta
and Surakarta, two native
towns with over 100,000
inhabitants in Central
Java. Java is fortunate,
from the Europeans'
standpoint, in having a
number of excellent hill
stations.

The nature of the
foreign trade of Java is
seen from the diagrams.
Batavia, it should be
noted, has a considerable
entrepot trade, but in this
respect is overshadowed
by Singapore, only 36
hours* steaming away.

SUMATRA *

The large island of
Sumatra consists of a
mountainous volcanic

i A magnificent great volume of 560 pages, sumptuously illustrated, is
O. J. A, Collet's Terres et Peuples de Sumatra (Amsterdam, 1925)-